The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ SoNE TBIcKsTER inserted the letter 5 into
+ bill pending in the Illinois Legislature. II the
+ trek had not been discovered it would have
been illegal TO sell ''spools'' on race tracks IN
that State.
Less than twenty five yenrs ago the capital
stock of the Standard OIL Company was $4,000;
now it is over $4,000 1000, and has cash divi-
dend of S250 600 600 to pay out every year, to say
nothing OF big sinking funds held in reserve
A P1Urx INDIAN near Camp Harvey, Ore.
came very near paying a visit TO the happy
hunting grounds recently, He painted his gums
| a dark green and his teeth deep red, ana the
paint poisoned him. A rugged constitution
saved him.
THERE is a nan down the slough seven or
eight miles from Prairie, de, who lives very
secluded life. He has a little house built il the
forks of tree, and he permits nobody TO in
trlde upon his privacy. Several parties have
conversed with him at a distance. He is armed
with rife and revolver. No one knows his
name or from whence he came.
''PoGoS1P' is said to be the name given by
mountaineers of Nevada to a sort Of frozen fog
that appears sometimes in winter, even on the
clearest and brightest of days. In an instant
the air is flied with floating needles of ice To
breathe the pogonip is death to the lungs. When
| it comes the people rush 10 cover. The Indians
| dread il as much the whites 1t appears TO
be caused by the sudden freezing in the air OF
the moisture which collects about the sunln1lts
of the high peaks
HENRY C. WALL,of Company F. First Virginia
Regiment went TO the national encampment at
! Washington private. He is now corporal
His promotion was the result of unfortunate
incident. While he was guard duty some
soldiers from the Rhode Island regiment tried
to pass the lines. Wall ordered them back and
they insulted him. Thereupon he stabbed two
Of them and they were taken to the hospital.
The Colonel of the Rhode Island regiment sus-
tanned the action of Wall, who subSe-
| nuaOrlv DrOyr0r.ai for his devotion HIty
Two young English ladies living at Dresden
recently went to Berlin on visit and wishing
to make the most of their time wrote to the
Chancellor, expressing their fervent wish to see
him. whereupon they received an invitation to
his palace, where they were most kindly re-
| ceived. A servant took them through the pal
ace, and showed them everything OF interest,
with which they WERE Of course, greatly de
lighted. their JOY eliminating when Prince Bis
ma-ck himself suddenly appeared and addressed
them most kindly in fluent English, walking
with them for some time in the garden before
bidding them farewell.
MANY strange scenes have been witnessed by
the keepers of Highland lighthouse, Cape Cod,
and ghastly relics of shipwrecks have been
found along the shore. The log-book tells of the
loss of many a good ship; sometimes it is writ
ten all lost; next some have lived to tell the
tale. and next come the cheerful words, AL
saved" OF the ten acres originally purchased
about seven remain, sure proof of the ravages
of old ocean. The cliffs at this point are of
heavy clay soil and wear away very slowly.
Beach grass has caught in along the foot of tie
cliffs in places, and has done more than all the
money spent by the government TO prevent the
cliffs from washing away.
THERE is a great boom in cathedral building
these days, but of all the builders it appears
that the Episcopal Bishop of Albany, n. Y,
shows the most zeal. 1t is related on excellent
authority that one of his right reverence S
practitioners, who happens to be pleasurng
abroad, shipped him a consignment of French
bonnets from Paris to be sold in the interest Of
truth and the Albany cathedral. The bishop
has interested himself personally in putting
them on the market, and inasmuch they are
high crowned affairs, very suitable for church
with dash of ritualism 10 it he has not found
it difficult to sell them. His smiable consort
sells lawn mowers in the same good cause.
PROF. THOMAS, of Little Rock, has a curious
library. The covers of, the books are of wood,
each different specimen The visitor picks up
book He finds that it is a solid bit of wood in
the shape of handy volume. The books are
made from white oak, red oak, black oak, chest
| nut, American beach. birch, red cedar, yellow
pine, pitch pine, willow, poplar, cypress. odd
field or long-leaved pine, bois d arc black
walnut, hickory Several varieties), white and
red maple, box elder. black locust, sumac, water
locust, coffee beam wild plum, holly, Eastwood,
papaw, bay, umbrella, wild cherry, sweet gum.
elm several varieties) sycamore, witch-hazel,
butternut, pecan, hickory, and twenty or more
l. other woods.
SAYS a Mexican mine owner: "we usually
have trusty men who act as detectives and work
around in the mine picking up information In
this way we discover many strange devices to
smuggle out the mineral. One day a detective
came to me and said when such and such men
come out examine their sandals l had that
, done. On the bottoms of the sandals was what
appeared to be mud, but when it was scraped
| into pan and worked found that it ran at the
rate Of $4,000 to the ton Ny miners had plas-
| tered thin layer of mud from the mine over
the leather and then sprinkled on the particles
| of silver, and over all had put another layer of
mud. They were working for 3711c. day, and
carrying out soc. worth of silver on the sole of
each sandal"
An East Indian nobleman became enamored
of professional beauty at Simia, and when
leaving he gave her an invitation to pay visit
to his Calcutta residence. She accepted with
J pleasure, and he informed her that as soon as
the house was ready for the reception of his
numerous visitors b, would send her a telegram
fixing the date of her visit. About a month
elapsed when the gentleman sent telegram to
the lady. saying: Come as soon as poselole -
He received the following reply the same eve, .
ing: My terms are 200 rupees a month and all
! found. He was naturally much astonished.
but decided to take the bull by the horns 81
wired back: "All right, come at once" lie
drove to the station and met not the beauty bl
a midwife of the same name.
ONE HUNDRED AND -FOUR of the 149 members o:
|
81 Glass Book, what their college expenses have
been. OF these ffty-ive have kept expense &C
r counts, and ten have preserved partial records
of their expenditures, The remainder have pre-
+ sumably estimated as nearly as possible theiI
\ expenses. On the basis of those answers the
average expense of freshman year was 1884 9S
2 of sophomore year 1881 81, and the junior year
Y 5000 g. InaSmuch as the figures are necessarily
compiled before the end of the senior year. al
. | element of estimate enters into all senior ex
. | penses One hundred and eleven men have
5 | given a careful estimate of their EXPENSES foi
a senior year, of which the average is S0As IS The
I highest price paid by any one for regular boarC
b by the week was 50, while five have paid So anC
: one man claims to have boarded a week on tht
4 total outlay of I2c.
e WHEN Senator Ben. Wade was a circuit judge
in Ohio. one of his decisions was reversed by til,
e Supreme Court of the State, and the case came
e back to him on mandate. He disregarded tn,
a mandate and followed his first decision But
/ your honor" exclaimed the beaten counsel
the Supreme Court reversed your former judg
: ment Yes, so have heard" was the reply
! II will give them a chance TO get right" TIL,
decision was again reviewed, this time will
. Judge Wade's written opinion. and the court de
cided that he was right. A bill of costs had beer
before him for three terms, and had been dis
i cussed at inordinate length. AS he was abou
closing the third term, the attorney in the cas-,
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